On a related note, commits should reference the  JIRA ticket as well.

-- 
Erik

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Wilder Rodrigues <
wrodrig...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:

> Okay,
>
> +1 for create the ACS Jira issue for improvements as well.
>
> Since Xen and Libvirt redesign will be on 4.6 - and are already documented
> - I will just create 2 issues so we have a way of keeping track of them.
>
> Cheers,
> Wilder
>
>
> On 18 May 2015, at 11:16, Stephen Turner <stephen.tur...@citrix.com
> <mailto:stephen.tur...@citrix.com>> wrote:
>
> Speaking for my XenCenter team again, for things like that we would have
> an improvement ticket, pointing to the wiki page.
>
> By the way, this also allows us to schedule the work on our sprint, but we
> had the policy even before we were doing Scrum. In a large, distributed,
> volunteer organisation, I would argue that it's even more important to be
> able to trace the change back to its reason, now and later.
>
> --
> Stephen Turner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilder Rodrigues [mailto:wrodrig...@schubergphilis.com]
> Sent: 18 May 2015 10:11
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Preparing for 4.6
>
> Hi there,
>
> I agree with the Jira ticket for the "new features, important fixes,
> security fixes"
>
> But I don’t think only about "new features, important fixes, security
> fixes”. I put most of my time in make the code better and tested, for what
> we call refactoring/rewriting/redesigning. Should we also create Jira
> issues for that and mark them as Improvement?
>
> Taking into account the [VPC] Virtual Router, Citrix Resource Base and
> Libvirt Computing Resource refactoring, we had only internal issues on
> Jira. However, the changes have been documented on the 4.5/4.6 sections of
> the Apache / Developers / Design Documents wiki:
>
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Refactor+for+Redundant+Virtual+Router+Implementation
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Refactoring+XenServer+Hypervisor+Plugin
>
> The Libvirt documentation is on its way, since the PR was pushed only last
> week.
>
> Cheers,
> Wilder
>
>
> On 18 May 2015, at 10:39, Stephen Turner <stephen.tur...@citrix.com
> <mailto:stephen.tur...@citrix.com><mailto:stephen.tur...@citrix.com>>
> wrote:
>
> In my XenCenter dev team at Citrix, we have the policy of requiring a
> ticket number on every commit. If we find a bug and there isn't already a
> ticket, we create a ticket before committing the fix. I guess I've just dug
> through history too many times to understand why something that appears
> wrong was done, only to find an inadequate description at the end of the
> trail.
>
> --
> Stephen Turner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 18 May 2015 09:32
> To: dev
> Subject: Re: Preparing for 4.6
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net<mailto:
> m...@renemoser.net><mailto:m...@renemoser.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 15.05.2015 11:27, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As we prepare to try a new process for 4.6 release it would be nice to
> start paying attention to master.
>
> - Good commit messages
>
> The question is, what makes a commit message good? Maybe this helps:
>
> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1cOtAU9lruLvoJl9SBdNSTHN6eyvml6nO5JlwT8_V2
> d_Y7wsnHAV3NiHTOya0cRQyt1WuG_fzithwjk4Qu-l3usM-B_yzy7V4qaxtoDIlEixysid
> QZ0ZbuK0YMNgknwBUaRUBJYNkjfGoppsXIpUXcmRvOH565otFMCmJUX2mfkrj_z5Vwm0wh
> PDqu2ZkGk1a/http%3A%2F%2Fchris.beams.io%2Fposts%2Fgit-commit%2F
>
> - Reference to a JIRA bug
>
> Must there be a JIRA bug? I did some commits without jira bugs in the
> past. But I noticed that those are not "tracked" in the changelog of the
> new release. So should there be a policy (is there?) that there must be a
> jira bug for fixes?
>
>
> I believe there should be a JIRA bug for most things. JIRA is a good place
> to document why you're doing something, it's also easy to use as a source
> for release notes as you discovered.
> It's also good practice to document bugs/fixes, it's generally easier to
> find JIRA bugs than it is to find commit messages - especially for
> non-developers / newbies.
>
> For major code commits (new features, important fixes, security fixes) I'd
> say it should be a requirement, but I don't know if it already is or not.
>
>
>
> - Squashing commits ( cc/ wilder :))
>
> This really depends. I would not generally prefer squashing commits.
>
> The example of
> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/commits/master?page=2 is more an
> example of "bad" commit messages.
>
> If you look at the commits, they make sense but the commit message
> indicates that they cover similar work in different aspects, which they
> actually don't.
>
> But if you look at this example here
>
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/commits/devel?author
> =gregdek where you can see dozens of similar commits, those should be
> squashed.
>
>
>
> +1 to squashing related commits where it makes sense to do so
> -1 to a general rule of squashing the whole PR
>
> --
> Erik
>
>

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